seasick

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Recent Examples of seasick The goal was to see if the deaf participants could be made seasick to understand and determine the comparative effects in unaffected subjects, aka men who could hear. Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2018 The action did not leap from the screen so much as stumble forward in a seasick kind of way. Jamie Lauren Keiles, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2022 My brother-in-law is afraid of getting seasick, and does not want to participate. Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2022 The Sunshine Skyway Pier was cheap, convenient, and a reasonable choice for people who get seasick or wouldn’t want to be stuck on a boat for hours. Daniel McGinn, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2022 See All Example Sentences for seasick
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seasick
Adjective
  • The 23-year-old college student died on April 23 in Assisi, Italy, minutes after becoming nauseous while dining with friends, The Boston Globe reported in a new interview with her father published on Wednesday, May 7.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 9 May 2025
  • An amusement park ride that provides thrills, but can leave you nauseous.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 7 May 2025
Adjective
  • Patrick Cook found in Herod the strain of queasy lyricism that Siegel missed at the Met.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
  • Then there’s carmine, which makes some consumers queasy because the reddish pigment comes from cochineal insects.
    Tribune News Service, Twin Cities, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • That Jia could make anything out of that flotsam and jetsam is astonishing, but his ability to not only recreate those time frames but craft all of it into a woozy, free-floating memory piece is miraculous.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2025
  • The black-and-white jacket, with its woozy vertical stripes, was designed by Pat Campano, who also made exuberant stage wear for the Supremes.
    Vincent Tullo, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The resulting scene of torture is, for my money, way worse than most anything we're exposed to in the games—and these are games that are not exactly squeamish about showing scenes of torture and extreme violence!
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 5 May 2025
  • His Crimes of the Future, a distinctly anatomical vision of the world to (hopefully not) come, was just a little too gross for some of the more squeamish attendees of the Cannes Film Festival.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • To reach the house, visitors drive up the dark, narrow mountain road hemmed in on both sides by foliage, before arriving, slightly carsick, slightly confused, at the low-slung residence with a modest roofline.
    Kristina Linnea Garcia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2024
  • While carpooling to school, he gets stuck in the middle seat and feels carsick.
    Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • Signs of dehydration, including: dry mouth and throat, infrequent peeing and feeling dizzy when standing up.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 23 May 2025
  • Spinning is what dizzy people do, and Lopez is not that.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 12 May 2025
Adjective
  • And the one thing the Oilers know is that Skinner has the ability to bounce back from shaky performances.
    Pierre LeBrun, New York Times, 26 May 2025
  • Celebrating success can reinforce morale, build confidence and remind people of what’s working, even when external circumstances feel shaky.
    Irma Becerra, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025

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